--- title: "Shopify B2B Agency in Kansas City" url: https://www.uncap.com/shopify-agency/kansas-city-missouri published: 2026-11-07 updated: 2026-11-07 summary: "Uncap is a Shopify Platinum Partner headquartered in Chicago that builds Shopify B2B commerce for manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers across the Kansas City, MO-KS metro; its team travels on site for kickoff and key milestones. According to BLS QCEW data for 2024, the metro's share of private warehousing and storage establishments was 1.75 times the national share and its share of wholesale trade establishments 1.31 times. Shopify B2B is available on the Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus plans. Uncap Blueprint costs $7,500 at a fixed price and takes four weeks; a migration from another platform typically runs 10 to 16 weeks." --- # Shopify B2B Agency in Kansas City > Uncap is a Shopify Platinum Partner headquartered in Chicago that builds Shopify B2B commerce for manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers across the Kansas City, MO-KS metro; its team travels on site for kickoff and key milestones. According to BLS QCEW data for 2024, the metro's share of private warehousing and storage establishments was 1.75 times the national share and its share of wholesale trade establishments 1.31 times. Shopify B2B is available on the Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus plans. Uncap Blueprint costs $7,500 at a fixed price and takes four weeks; a migration from another platform typically runs 10 to 16 weeks. Uncap builds Shopify B2B commerce for manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers across the Kansas City, MO-KS metro, in Missouri and in Kansas. Its home base is Chicago, where it works as a Shopify Platinum Partner. This page covers who does the work, what the metro's government data says about its distribution base, the Shopify plan questions to settle first, and what a project costs to start. ## Who does the work, and where the team comes from Uncap is headquartered in Chicago, at 8770 West Bryn Mawr Ave, Suite 1300, Chicago, IL 60631, and works with businesses across the United States. For a project in the Kansas City area, Uncap's team, based at its Chicago headquarters, travels on site for kickoff and key milestones. That holds on both sides of the state line. The Census Bureau's July 2023 metro delineation counts Jackson, Clay, Platte and Cass counties in Missouri and Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas as the metro's central counties, and names Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, Kansas, Overland Park and Lenexa as its principal cities. A company in any of them gets the same arrangement. Between site visits, work follows the scope, timeline and budget fixed before the build began. At kickoff, it helps to follow one real trade order from the moment it arrives to the moment it is invoiced. Note which warehouse ships it, which price list it uses and the terms the account carries, plus the system that holds each answer. Uncap's Shopify development work is aimed at manufacturers, distributors, and operator-led brands. If your business buys, holds and resells stock, the page on [Shopify for distributors](/solutions/distributors) goes deeper into catalogs, account pricing and reorders from the distributor's side. ## Kansas City's distribution base in BLS data The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the metro as one area, Kansas City, MO-KS, covering counties in both states. In its figures, warehousing and wholesale stand out, while manufacturing employment sits at about the national share. - Warehousing and storage: according to the BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), the metro averaged 255 private warehousing and storage establishments in 2024. Their share of local establishments was 1.75 times the national share. - Wholesale trade: the same 2024 QCEW data counts 5,353 private wholesale trade establishments, a share 1.31 times the national one. Within wholesale, agents and brokers ran at 1.45 times the national share and merchant wholesalers of durable goods at 1.36 times. - Manufacturing: the QCEW counts 2,255 private manufacturing establishments in the metro in 2024, employing 89,880 people on average, with an employment location quotient of 1.01. The warehousing and wholesale ratios above count establishments, not jobs, because the QCEW does not disclose employment for those industries in this metro. The monthly BLS survey adds a current picture. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the metro had 1,175,300 nonfarm jobs in September 2026. Manufacturing accounted for 91,200, up from 88,900 in September 2025, with durable goods rising from 57,100 to 60,500. For that month the survey also shows 51,500 wholesale trade jobs and 66,100 in transportation, warehousing and utilities. The BLS marks every September 2026 figure here as preliminary, and none is seasonally adjusted. This page is written for the businesses in those counts that sell on account: wholesalers and distributors running stock through the region's warehouses, and the manufacturers that sell through them or directly to trade buyers. ## Interstates, rail and foreign-trade zones on both sides State agencies in Kansas and Missouri describe the freight setting around the metro as follows. - I-70 and I-35: the Kansas Department of Commerce says Interstate 70 and Interstate 35 converge in the Kansas City area, and that I-35 connects the United States with two of its largest trading partners, Canada and Mexico. - Edgerton, Kansas: the same agency describes Logistics Park Kansas City as a 3,000-acre intermodal development and inland distribution hub, with more than 14.4 million square feet of new distribution facilities. The agency adds that it is part of the BNSF Intermodal network. - South Kansas City, Missouri: in August 2025, the Missouri Department of Economic Development celebrated the grand opening of a 335,000-square-foot cold storage facility developed by Americold Realty Trust in partnership with Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC). The department says it will serve as a key hub for CPKC's Mexico Midwest Express rail service. - Foreign-trade zones: the Kansas Department of Commerce lists the Kansas City, Kansas FTZ (Zone 17), which covers nine Kansas counties including Wyandotte and Johnson, alongside the Kansas City, Missouri FTZ (Zone 15). It notes that zone users are exempt from paying duty while goods remain in the zone or are exported. If your stock sits in more than one building, whether your own warehouse, a third-party logistics provider or a zone, and your buyers sit in more than one state, the storefront has to show each buyer the availability they can actually get, and the order has to reach the system that ships it. The plan, build and integration sections below deal with each of those. ## Shopify plans and B2B rules for a two-state seller You do not need Shopify Plus to sell B2B. Shopify's Help Center lists B2B on the Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus plans. The plan sets how many catalogs you can put to work at once: on Basic, Grow and Advanced, you can have up to 3 active catalog assignments across active B2B markets, and that limit does not apply on Plus. Before you price a plan, count assignments as well as catalogs. Shopify counts the same active catalog assigned to 2 active B2B markets as 2 assignments. A seller with one catalog for retail stores and another for contractors, each assigned to one market, has used two of the three. A third catalog for an institutional account fills the allowance, and a fourth buyer group with its own catalog points to Plus. A seller that stays within three may fit a lower plan. Accounts that buy on terms need those terms carried into Shopify. Payment terms define how long a company has to pay for an order. List the terms each Kansas City account carries today, on either side of the state line, and set them up to match before the first trade order goes through the new store. For company accounts, catalogs and checkout setup step by step, see Uncap's page on [Shopify B2B](/solutions/shopify-b2b). ## New store, migration, or wholesale added to a retail store Uncap's fixed-scope builds cover three starting points through its [Shopify development services](/commerce), with the timeline and budget agreed before the build starts. - Moving from another platform: a migration from another platform typically takes 10 to 16 weeks, with Uncap's median cutover at around 14 weeks. The Shopify migrations page explains how the cutover is planned. - Starting on Shopify: a new storefront or B2B ordering portal, which takes about 12 weeks from discovery to launch. - Adding wholesale to the store you run: if you already sell direct to consumers on Shopify, B2B and B2C can run on that one store, and bringing them together there takes 4 to 8 weeks. Whichever applies, the senior team covers architecture, design, theme and app development, ERP and system integration, data migration with SEO redirects, and launch. After launch, an [ongoing monthly engagement](/growth) keeps improving the store: conversion, order value, retention and operations. Monthly plans start at $2,500. ## Keeping the ERP, the warehouses and Shopify in agreement The ERP remains the system of record, and Shopify connects to it so that prices, inventory and orders say the same thing in both places. Uncap integrates Shopify with ERP and back-office systems from 13 vendors: Acumatica, Cin7, Epicor, Fishbowl, Infor, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, Odoo, Oracle, QuickBooks, Sage, SAP and Syspro. The [integrations directory](/integrations) has a page for each of those vendors, plus pages for individual products from several of them. Whether a system connects through [Uncap Connect](/products/connect) or a managed integration depends on the system, and the team confirms fit for your ERP and version directly. Uncap Connect costs $8,000 to set up, then a flat $390 per month. If stock also lives in a warehouse management system or with a third-party logistics provider, raise it on the first call. It belongs in the integration scope from the start, alongside the ERP. For trade accounts that quote or reorder often, two Uncap products are worth a look. Uncap Quotes turns your catalog into instant, account-specific quotes, which buyers configure, price and check out on their own. [Uncap Portal](/products/portal) gives trade accounts a self-serve home on Shopify for catalogs, pricing, reorders, invoices and users, so buyers help themselves and reps stop fielding the same requests. ## Client work and reviews The three case studies below are Uncap client projects, chosen because they match the businesses this page is written for. None is presented here as a Kansas City company. - ULE Group: an electrical, lighting and power distribution business. Uncap built the Shopify B2B storefront that now holds its catalog of over 250,000 SKUs. A Product Information Management system keeps the catalog clean, on-site search offers more than 100 filters, and an Epicor ERP integration syncs inventory and pricing. B2B customers get account-based pricing. - Sanitaire: for nearly 50 years it has made commercial cleaning equipment such as carpet extractors and backpack vacuums. Its legacy platform moved to Shopify Plus with all customer information and data kept, and Uncap integrated its ERP system. - Microfiber Wholesale: a family-owned business, 75 years old, that sells cleaning and janitorial supplies. Uncap migrated its legacy website to Shopify Plus, bringing over all website data, customer information and content, and every project objective was met within the requested timeframe. Uncap is rated 5.0 on Clutch from 77 reviews, 5.0 on Google from 64, 5.0 in the Shopify Partner Directory from 66, and 4.6 on Trustpilot from 20. Read the reviews in full on the [testimonials page](/testimonials). ## The order of work on a Kansas City project - First call. Bring your catalog size, your buyer groups, your ERP and version, the states you ship to and the date you need to be live. - A four-week plan, if you want one. Uncap Blueprint is a $7,500 fixed-price, four-week engagement covering architecture, the ERP integration roadmap and a replatforming risk assessment. The plan stays with you, and Uncap credits the fee 1:1 toward implementation. - Scope and budget. Uncap agrees the timeline and the budget with you before any build work begins. - Kickoff on site. Uncap's team comes from its Chicago headquarters to your site to start the project. - Build or migration. The integration, the data and the storefront are built to the agreed scope. - Milestones on site. At key milestones, the team is back on site with you. - Launch and hypercare. The project runs to completion within its fixed scope and goes live with a hypercare launch. If you already know the scope, you can go straight to a fixed-scope build. If you are still weighing a move from another platform, or how the ERP should connect, Blueprint answers that in four weeks. Either way, the first call covers your catalog and your accounts. [Talk to Our Experts](/quote) ## Frequently asked questions ### Is Uncap based in Kansas City? No. Uncap is headquartered in Chicago, at 8770 West Bryn Mawr Ave, Suite 1300, and works with businesses across the United States. For Kansas City projects, Uncap's team, based at its Chicago headquarters, travels on site for kickoff and key milestones. The rest of the project follows the scope, timeline and budget settled before the build starts. ### Do you work with companies on the Kansas side, such as Overland Park and Lenexa? Yes. This page covers the whole Kansas City, MO-KS metro, which the Census Bureau's July 2023 delineation centers on Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas and Jackson, Clay, Platte and Cass counties in Missouri. Whether you are in Overland Park, Lenexa or Kansas City, Kansas, or in Kansas City, Missouri, Uncap's team travels on site for kickoff and key milestones. ### Do I need Shopify Plus to sell B2B? No. Shopify B2B is available on the Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus plans. On Basic, Grow and Advanced, you can have up to 3 active catalog assignments across active B2B markets, and the same active catalog assigned to 2 active B2B markets counts as 2. Plus does not have that limit, so it becomes the plan to price once you need a fourth assignment. ### Can one Shopify store sell to retail customers and wholesale accounts? Yes. Uncap's fixed-scope builds include unifying B2B and B2C on one store, so consumers and trade accounts buy from the same Shopify store. For a business already selling direct to consumers on Shopify, adding B2B to that store takes 4 to 8 weeks. Trade accounts can buy on payment terms, which define how long a company has to pay for an order. ### How long does it take to move a Kansas City store to Shopify? A migration from another platform typically takes 10 to 16 weeks, and Uncap's median cutover is around 14 weeks. Starting fresh on Shopify, a new build takes about 12 weeks from discovery to launch. If you want a plan before committing, Uncap Blueprint is delivered in four weeks, and its fee is credited 1:1 toward implementation. ### How much does a first Shopify B2B engagement with Uncap cost? For $7,500 at a fixed price, Uncap Blueprint spends four weeks on architecture, integrations and total cost of ownership, and its fee is credited 1:1 toward implementation. Each build is fixed scope, and its timeline and budget are agreed up front. Uncap Connect costs $8,000 to set up, then $390 a month, and ongoing monthly plans start at $2,500 a month. ### Will Shopify work with the ERP our Kansas City business runs on? Uncap integrates Shopify with ERP and back-office systems from 13 vendors, among them Acumatica, Epicor, Infor, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, Oracle, Sage, SAP and Syspro. The route, Uncap Connect or a managed integration, varies by system, and the team confirms fit for your ERP and version directly. The ERP remains the system of record. ### How is Uncap rated by its clients? Uncap, a Shopify Platinum Partner, is rated 5.0 on Clutch from 77 reviews, 5.0 on Google from 64, 5.0 in the Shopify Partner Directory from 66, and 4.6 on Trustpilot from 20. Client reviews are collected on the Uncap testimonials page, and case studies are published under Uncap's work.